Fashionable Register of Dyed-stuffs
(Ryûkô o-somemono chô, 流行御染物悵)
Publisher:
c. 1834
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This series of prints of beautiful women is partly
art and partly advertising. The series
is listed as number 90 in Kuniyoshi
by Basil William Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1961). The
prints are each about 14 by 10 inches (36 by 25 centimeters), a size known as
ôban. |
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Title: Greenish
Brown (Yanagiba onando) Description: Beauty
sitting on floor and having tea NOTE: The
inscription “Yamakichi, No. 1 Hongin-chô”
has been added to the main cartouche. This is an advertisement for the
dyed-stuffs business run by Kuniyoshi’s father, Yanagi-ya
Kichiemon, at No. 1, Hongin-chô. |
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Title: Description: Beauty
watching fireworks |
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I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this
simplified state of the above design without a publisher’s seal. |
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Title: Fukagawa nezumi (深川鼡) Description: Beauty trying
on a kimono NOTE: Note the
absence of a publisherʼs seals from this print. I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this
image. |
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Another state of the above design
without green in the sample book, in the left upper corner. |
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Title: Special tea (Ririn cha, 利林 茶) Description: Beauty
carrying a tray of teacups toward a table with birds on the floor around her
feet |
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Title: Carrying a
child in a ladylike fashion (komochi arare, 子持 あられ) Description: Mother with
child on her back I am grateful to Leo Glenn for this image and translation. |
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“Robinson” refers to listing of the series in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1961). CLICK
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